Avaliação do comércio de exportação de peixes ornamentais no estado do Pará no período de 1996-2001.

Abstract

The ornamental fishes trade has a high importance for Brazil e for the state of Pará, because of the state’s location, which is in amazon region that has one of the world’s biggest ornamental fishes diversity. For this study analysis it was used the informations from the Traffic Export Permit that were given by IBAMA (inspection organ) in the period of 1996 to 2001 that demonstrated that the biggest amount of the exported fishes belong to the Siluriformes Order summing 59% of the exported species, more precisely Loricariidae family fishes, also known as “Plecos” and “L” number fishes. The exportation is made to three principal continents: America, Asia and Europe and the main importer countries in the analyzed period are the United States, Germany and Japan, highlighting the United States that sum 66% from all Pará ornamental fishes exportation. Therefore, the present study evidences that there is a growing developing necessity of the market such as a bigger partnership between the public and private department to make real a sustainable exploration of this natural resource.